in the whole brutal exuberance of the character than that
gesture with which Quilp punches his own face with his own
fist. It is indeed a perfect symbol; for Quilp is always
fighting himself for want of anybody else. He is energy, and
energy by itself is always suicidal; he is that primordial
energy which tears and which destroys itself.

G. K. CHESTERTON.

The following is a list of the works of Charles Dickens :--

Sketches by Boz, 1835, 2nd series, 1836 (from "Monthly Magazine,"
"Morning Chronicle," "Evening Chronicle," "Bell's Life in London,"
and "The Library of Fiction"); Sunday under Three Heads, &c., 1836;
The Strange Gentleman, comic burletta, 1837; The Village Coquettes,
comic opera, 1836; Is she his wife? or Something Singular? comic
burletta, acted 1837; Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, monthly
numbers, 1836-7; Mudfog Papers ( Bentley "Miscellany"), 1837-9;
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by Boz, 1838; Oliver Twist, or the
Parish Boy Progress, 1838 (from Bentley "Miscellany"); Sketches of
Young Gentlemen, 1838; Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby;
monthly numbers, 1838-9; Sketches of Young Couples, &c., 1840;
Master Humphrey's Clock, weekly numbers, 1840-1; volume form, 1840,
1841 (Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge; The Pic-nic Papers (preface
and first story), 1841; American notes for general circulation, 1842; A
Christmas Carol in Prose, 1843; The Life and Adventures of Martin
Chuzzlewit, monthly numbers, 1843-4; The Chimes: a Goblin Story of
some Bells, &c., 1844; The Cricket on the Hearth: a Fairy Tale of
Home, 1845; Pictures from Italy, 1846(from "Daily News"); The
Battle of Life: a Love Story, 1846; Dealings with the Firm of Dombey
& Son, &c., monthly numbers, 1846-8; The Haunted Man, and the
Ghost's Bargain, 1848; The Personal History of David Copperfield,
monthly numbers, 1849-50; Christmas Stories in "Household Words"
and "All the Year Round," 1850-67; Bleak House, monthly numbers,
1852-3; A Child's History of England, 1854 (from "Household Words");
Hard Times for these Times, 1854 (from "Household Words"); Little
Dorritt, monthly numbers, 1855-57; A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 (from
"All the Year Round"); Great Expectations, 1861 (from "All the Year
Round"); Our Mutual Friend, monthly numbers, 1864-5; Religious
Opinions of the late Rev. Chauncey Hare Townhend, ed. C. D., 1869;
"Landor's Life," last contribution to "All the Year Round"; The
Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished), in monthly numbers, April to
September, 1870.

Other papers were contributed to "Household Words" and "All the
Year Round."

First Collective Ed., 1847-74; Library Ed., 1857, &c.; "Charles
Dickens" Ed., 1868-70; Letters, ed. Miss Hogarth and Miss Dickens,
1886; Life, by Forster, 1872-74; "Men of Letters" Series, 1882;
"Great Writers" Series, 1887.

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